This actually happened the monday before Thanksgiving :) I love decorating! We went through a whirlwind day trying to get things cleaned up enough that I was comfortable getting out all this christmas stuff and then the girls had a blast! We mainly did the Tree, The Nativity, and of course what is the tree without the Christmas train! :)
Well here I am.
Yeah. Hmm...
Boy I'm exciting! Aren't I! :)
I guess it's time to go and find out what's on my camera, I'll be right back.
Well first it looks like we have leaves!
This was a while ago but it was a lot of fun... in fact the pile may still be out on the lawn. Oops huh, it never made it to the trash :)
Ally's so pretty!
I have a bunch of these! This is one of my favorites but I guess I'll have to scrapbook it all and show you later:)
Here's some pics of costumes and pumpkin carving! Definitely a favorite fall passtime :)
Here's how my Texas trick or treaters were dressed hehehe (truthfully it did get a little chilly :) but Livvy wouldn't have it any other way!)
And Phoebe was eating candy and dancing to... was it Monster Mash? Anyway it was adorable as always :)
Here's Livvy...
And her pumpkin :}
Here's Layna...
And her Pumpkin :S
And here's Ally...
And her Pumpkin :)
Anyway I hope everyone had a wonderful time! We miss you all! Happy Halloween!
Then we have Ally the Queen Diva of the night ;)
Livvy's party was awesome... I'm lucky anyone came really. I went around searching out parents the week of because it had taken so long for me to get on it & to figure out who Livvy even wanted to invite. But it was fun and Livvy had a happy day!
I think I have a picture from long ago with me & my friends in our own paper plate birthday hats and all holding cabbage patch dolls. It reminded me of this one with all their homade party hats they got to decorate and create their own hat it was fun :)
Then I wanted to show the cupcakes I took and frosted each cupcake on their plates like a mini cake using whatever colors I previously had it wasn't till after spraying on the blue that I realized I'd made 4th of July birthday cakes :) The middle platter was just made as rainbow as possible. :)
Seriously I think Phoebe was a little jipped it doesn't really even look like a birthday. :[
But She loved the food
and Livvy loved the cake! :) Livvy sure knows how to get into the spirit of things :)
And Sarah, she did stick her face in the cupcake of her own accord (and idea I had nothing to do with this except for the picture:) )
So that was our birthday... time... couple of months... whatever you want to call it :) Happy birthday to my girls :) I guess it's time for some new tickers:)
So we've had a lot of sickness going around the last two days and I meen some serious sick. Eww! So who else but Mom is taking care of everyone? That's what I thought. So anyway, I'm a little tired and I happen to know that my girls are at one end of the house and as I'm walking to go put away some laundry I hear the radio playing loudly (not blasting... it's been worse :) but loud) and I'm getting upset, I round the corner and look in the room to go shut it off and I see Phoebe standing there swaying to the music and bending down to pickup one of there toys every so often. It was too cute! :) So I let the radio stay on and watched her for a little longer as she kept dancing and lookin around before I went on to finish putting the laundry away and continue with my normal stuff. It's sad but life goes on. :) Love the memories :)
So this weekend I have been flattened against the cabinets in the kitchen stuffing metal cables down a 1 1/2" tube in the wall and pulling it out covered in black sludge and a lye solution that was supposed to be cleaning the pipes and instead kept splattering ourselves..... Continued :) We had some horribly clogged pipes starting from Fri. morning we have been unable to use our kitchen sink and although the lye solution worked the best of any of the pipe cleaners every time it touched us we had to hurry and run it under hot water or we would end up with a painful if not deep burn where it had touched. At one point as Alex pulled the cable out of the wall and I tried to hold it steady it turned and splattered across all my arms and neck... that was probably one of the more painful moments. :] But after several tries with an electric snake and In the middle of Conference(coincidence? I think NOT:) ) and after much prayer It started to finally drain.... slowly! By the end of the day it was fixed and we were able to get some of the 2 days worth of dishes washed before the morning. I still have to go and wash off all the things that had sat under the kitchen sink because they also are rather covered in lye polka dots :) Fun, fun, fun!
Conference was great wasn't it. There wasn't anything in particular said to fix this but somehow it really helped me get over my woe is me feelings I've been dealing with (again) lately :) There was a lot said that helped me in other things though. I think it brought back all my smiley faces too (as you might have noticed there are quite a few in this post :) )
Yeah so that post started about conference and I really did enjoy it and my friend and I got to talk about several things pretty well but those of you who know me will understand that though it was wonderful I'll have to wait for it in printed form to actually give out my favorite quotes.... I know president Monson said something about service that I really liked and as with all of us I loved Sister Beck's talk. I hope the painting post isn't too long ( Okay I just looked at it again.... it's pretty long) I just had to get my feelings out there somewhere because every time I looked at it I knew there was so much more there than Alex saw and here's to the hope that someone else can see it too :) You don't have to read it all but it's there if you want to. Oh and it's better in person... I'll let you decide how much better :)
